Secondary School Swimming Gala

Secondary School Talent Show

Secondary School Cricket tour to India

DIASPORA

Student Accomplishments

Academics

Over the years our IB external examinations results have been among the best in the region.

In May 2017 the top score of 44/45 was achieved by Rohan Goel. The following students secured between 40 to 42 points: Aashay Mehta, Haya Sardar, Nikita Rupani, Sarah Abu Al Haj, Vidhi Chander, Sarp Saysel, Olivia Simoni, Daniel Giesemann, Marta Ortega and Sanjay Alwani. The pass rate of 94% was well above the world average. All our graduates secure college placements across 17 countries, which include the world’s top universities: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and London School of Economics.

In May 2017, 80% of our students received acceptances from their first choice university. In the MYP e-Assessments the top score of 54/56 was achieved by Shreyas Raman.

DIA students have been part of the national debating team and have done us proud in local inter-school competitions, winning individual and group trophies.

The DIA Senior Debating team was placed 1st runner-up in the Plate in the Gulf Debates Competition. They came 6th out of the 32 teams. The team was: Abhinav Shetty, Paulomi Sengupta, Aaron Lopez. Suhail Mayor represented the school as a judge in the Senior division.

World Scholars Cup

In the 2016-2017 Academic year there were fourteen students who represented DIA at three separate events around Dubai. The students were from Year 8 to Year 12 with all students successfully qualifying for the subsequent round. This involved competing with students from Nigeria, Lebanon and Kazakhstan. Each round of the competition involved tasks such as debating, collaborative writing and participation in a quiz.

Our DIA students performed excellently in all tasks, receiving individual awards for various accomplishments while one student progressed to the prestigious debate showcase.

Some noteworthy achievers included:

Sreenidhi Ramachandran, receiving first prize for History knowledge;

Naeema Sageer, received a second prize for Literature knowledge and first prize for special area knowledge in the senior group. Naeema also received second overall for the scholars challenge, fourth overall for debate and seventh overall for the writing challenge in the senior group which resulted in her being awarded the second overall scholar prize in the senior age group.

The DIA team received third prize overall in both the debate and the writing challenge and fourth prize in the scholars challenge which culminated in a fifth prize overall in the entire senior division. Sehar Selman received a first individual prize for collaborative writing in the junior group. The DIA team received second group prize for collaborative writing in the junior group.

Quiz

The DIA team of 7 secondary students made it to the finals at the Credence High School UAE Master Quiz Tournament. Out of 25 schools, they made it to the top 6. The quiz covered all fields of human and planetary activity - earth and its environment, politics, sports, entertainment, art, music, literature, science and technology.

BRAINways Quest Competition

In the Regional Round held in Dubai for Primary Schools:

1st Place in the Regional Round and 2nd Place in the International Global Finals - Jake Weeman, Chloe Moussa, Shusei Robson

1st Place in the Regional Round and 3rd Place in the International Global Finals - Louisa Pohl, Kaleo Kolb, Timur Ahmad

The theme for DIAMUN 2018: "Global Innovation in Education, Energy and the Economy"

Arts

DIA hosts an annual inter-school film festival and Talent Competitions. The annual Emirates Literature Festival provides our students a platform to showcase their talents. The Primary School stages musical productions each year while the Secondary drama department puts on an annual production. In November 2017 DIA is hosting the International Society for Theatre Arts (ISTA) Middle East Festival. The Primary School choir, DIAtones, performs to a very high standard at school events and in the community on invitation. In the Secondary School we have an orchestra, choir and rock band! A quick walk around our campus will convince visitors of the immense talent displayed by our students in the visual arts.

Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature, Arabic writing competition conducted by Oxford University Press was won by Sana Hamdan for Arabic short story and Zahra Bengdara for Arabic poetry.

DIA Primary School Choir, the DIATones, have been included in the ‘Voices Around the World’ global release in connection with the Rio Olympics. The project featured input from more than 7,000 students from schools worldwide.

Innovents Art Competition – DIA students secured 18 out of 33 possible places, 15 out of 21 awards in the secondary section were won by DIA.

Gifted and Talented

Three students from Year 13 were interviewed by The Uma Show, season 5 aired on Zee TV (ME), where about their Innovations

Carl Vinter and Braeden Bihag, won AED 15,000 in a business/enterprise competition. They are intending to use it to make a working prototype of their product in order to follow up on investment opportunities.

Dhruv Karthik, recently became the youngest finalist in the history of the ‘Drones for Good’ competition. Competing against hundreds of teams composed of university professors, graduate students, and robotics professionals from round the world, Dhruv was selected as the only individual finalist in the competition.

Secondary Students participated in a Coding competition at Sunmarke School which was won by: Michal Kijanski, Dheer Toprani, Zaher Matthew.

Sports

We field teams at local and international inter-school fixtures in swimming, football, cricket, basketball, cross country, volleyball, netball, athletics, aquathlon. Swimming, Volleyball, Football and Cricket are also played at international inter-school and club level tournaments and events.

UAE Teen Sports and Fitness Awards 2017-2018

Under the Patronage of DR. ABDULLA AL KARAM Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) awarded:

Dubai International Academy - 3rd Best Sports School in UAE

UAE Teen Sports and Fitness Awards 2017-2018

Individual Achievements:

Humza Salam - 1st Place Sporting Inspiration of the year U19 Male

Aditya Rathi - 1st Place Sporting Inspiration of the year U19 Male

Hritik Bhatia - 1st Place Athlete of the Year Cricket U19 Male

Kyra Ortner - 1st Place Athletics Athlete of the Year - Track and Field U16 Female

Sophia Dumont - 1st Place Athlete of the Year Swimming U14 Female

Candice Saxod - 2nd Place Athlete of the Year Swimming U19 Female

Timothy Pauka - 3rd Place Athlete of the Year Swimming U16 Male

Vishnupriya Bohra - 1st Place Athlete of the Year Athletics - Track and Field U16 Female

Humza Salam - 3rd Place Athlete of the Year Athletic - Track and Field U19 Male

Under the Patronage of DR. ABDULLA AL KARAM Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) awarded:

Dubai International Academy – 2nd Place in the Best Youth Developmental Pathway

UAE Teen Sports and Fitness Awards 2016-2017

Individual Achievements:

Humza Salam – 1st Place - U16 Male Outstanding Athlete Achievement

The DIA International swimming championship was held at Hamdan Sports Complex, it was an all-day event with 375 swimmers from 11 schools, including one from Doha. The Second Place was secured by – Dubai International Academy

U16 Boys Football Team was invited to Verona, Italy to take part in the annual Mediterranean cup against teams from Europe and the Middle East – 15 students and two teachers travelled to Italy, this is the second consecutive year of participation in this tournament.

Sophia Dumont swam in the Switzerland Age Nationals for the second year. This year, in the category U13, she won a silver medal in 200m breast and a bronze medal in 100m breast. She came 4th in 200m individual medley. Sophia also came 4th in 400m individual medley in the category U15.

Community initiatives

Community service is an integral part of our curriculum at all levels. Our students regularly volunteer their services in underdeveloped parts of the world. Outstanding student charity initiatives such as Water for Life have been recognised internationally. The DIA Eco-Club has secured the Green Flag status for environmental conservation for six years in a row.